Language: EnglishGenre: Comedy/CrimeMPAA rating: RDirector: Martin McDonaghActors: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam RockwellPlot: In this darkly comic tale a mother, who is frustrated at the lack of progress following the murder of her daughters months earlier, buys and posts three messages in billboards leading in to town, pointed directly at the well-liked chief of police. When other disparate characters begin to get involved in the proceedings, the grieving mother and Ebbing Police Department really get into it.

Language: EnglishGenre: Crime/DramaMPAA rating: RDirector: Clint EastwoodActors: Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Kevin BaconPlot: As childhood friends drift apart, they are reunited when one of their daughters is killed and one of them could be a suspect based on his past.

Language: EnglishGenre: Crime/DramaMPAA rating: RDirector: Sergio LeoneActors: Robert De Niro, Tuesday Weld, Joe PesciPlot: Noodles, a Jewish gangster, returns to his stomping grounds where he tries to forget the past and the tragic events that occurred.

Language: EnglishGenre: Action/CrimeMPAA rating: PG-13Director: Andrew DavisActors: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela WardPlot: A doctor is accused of murdering his wife and escapes to find the one-armed man responsible for the crime while dodging the U.S. Marshals in pursuit.

Language: EnglishGenre: Drama/CrimeMPAA rating: NRDirector: Stanley KubrickActors: Sterling Hayden, Vince Edwards, Coleen GrayPlot: A group of men try to knock off a horse track in an elaborate plan to make them all rich when something goes wrong.

Language: GermanGenre: Drama/CrimeMPAA rating: PGDirector: F.W. MurnauActors: Janet Gaynor, George O'Brien, J. Farrell McDonaldPlot: A farmer falls in love with a city girl who tries to convince him to murder his wife and make it look like a suicide.

Language: EnglishGenre: Crime/DramaMPAA rating: RDirector: Denis VilleneuveActors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Hugh Jackman, Terrence HowardPlot: When his daughter and her best friend go missing, a Boston man tracks down the person he believes is responsible and kidnaps him in return.

Language: EnglishGenre: Crime/DramaMPAA rating: RDirector: Dan GilroyActors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Paxton, Rene RussoPlot: A down and out young man, desperate for work, stumbles upon the seedy underworld of L.A.'s crime journalism. The break-neck pace is all about being the first on the scene - murder, accidents, fires, mayhem - and selling the gratuitous footage to the local news stations. But the better he gets, the more likely he is going to become the next story...

Language: EnglishGenre: Crime/DramaMPAA rating: RDirector: John SingletonActors: Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice CubePlot: In South Central Los Angeles three friends grow up in an inner-city neighborhood characterized by drugs, violence and crime. Escape, adapt, survive - there are no easy choices and every action has its consequence.